One, one, one, one day I will go
Wipe the cold out my eyes,
Check the weather in the sky
Staring at the ceiling still
Thinking bout the money for these bills
On the wrong side of the bed
Check the clock and the time that it said
It's like yesterday, close my eyes,
but do I ever really sleep?
One day, cranky eyes, red, lying in bed,
awake to the sounds of a newborn, crying to be fed.
This is the brag, unemployed, sleep as long as I can,
5 .30, heard the garbage man, when
doing it begin, my sister tries to wake me up,
banging my door with hard knocks, the
noise is in my neighborhood, that's the alarm clock,
fire trucks, gypsy cabs, loud honking
they horns, the stereo goes off at 6 and not a minute before,
get up, eat, back to sleep,
them in dry sunny sky when the gate goes up at the
store it's 7 45 mick and angie always argue at 8
and when po lice come i know it's 8 30
because they're half hour late fall back to sleep but
if you ask i'm just resting my eyes right here yelling
yo ty i know it's 8 45 8 48 here the
school bus breaks that the bus makes the bus takes
three minutes from the stops that it must make
it's nine when i hear the kids in front of the
school yell out the window shut up that's how i
put it on snooze put on the news the same stories
repeat waking up to yesterday i close my eyes
But do I ever really sleep?
Man, I overslept, we've been started
But the day ain't over yet
I'll take care of that tomorrow
Call my boy for the money I can borrow
Lucky I ain't leave without checking it
Close my eyes, but do I ever really sleep?
Cell beeping full of voicemails
Check the first one, it's
Get up and find a jog today
One -thirty, half the day's done
Second message was a hang -up
Fourth, yo dawg, I know that you busy
When you ditched us, just hit me
I know you still sleeping,
Yo, it's postponed until this evening
I should've been up since
then I won't pick it up quick
Sixth message, bros, what up, bitch?
You a hard dude to get in touch with
I got some shorties for the night
What up with the guest list?
Ace message, call me back, it's
only to hear of another artist was slain
seein' people movin' in and movin' out
Seen the students all grown,
big enough to handle things on their own
Got showered and I ain't my gear,
but yo, I ain't even goin' nowhere
It's like yesterday, close my eyes,
but do I ever really sleep?
Today the kids graduated so
Angie split up and the store
Ty don't yell no more because
they at but later on I forgot it
And the year flew by with all
It's like I've been sleepwalking
cause I'm lost and behind
And even when I was awake
I was asleep all the time
I realize I need a job I'm doing
nothing I'm just wasting away
The hours that I sleep could
be money that I make in a day
Instead of lying down all day on my back,
I need to get up on my feet
Yesterday was every day of the week,
now I got no time to sleep